Wednesday, 30 January 2013
39 John Bagwell
Constituency : Clonmel 1857-74
John is the first of the Irish Liberals to discuss. The Bagwells were a wealthy and influential family living at Marlfield House in the constituency. John's uncle William had been a previous ( Tory) MP for the constituency. He was a magistrate.
Mindful that the Irish members were a necessary part of the Liberal majority, Palmerston made John a junior Lord of the Treasury in 1859 but this was terminated in 1862. In 1862 Bagwell lamented that the police in Ireland had become too militarised to be of any use as a civil force. In 1863 he protested at the exclusion of Ireland from the Volunteers system insisting that the majority of Irishmen were loyal subjects.
The seat was lost to the Home Rule League in 1874.
John died in 1883 aged 72. His son Richard was a noted historian and grandson John was an original senator of the Irish Free State.
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